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Monday, May 16, 2011

Free Webinar: Collaborative Genealogy on Geni.com

At 7:30 PM ET on May 17th, Geni.com will be hosting a free webinar to walk you through how easy it is to collaborate on your genealogy with both close and distant family.

If you're interested in learning more about collaborative genealogy, register for this webinar at your earliest convenience. Space is limited, so don't hesitate.

About Geni

Geni is solving the problem of genealogy by creating a single family tree of the world. Using the basic free service at Geni.com, users can build their family tree, invite relatives to join it, find relatives in other trees, and then merge trees. The largest tree on Geni contains over 50 million people. Geni’s pay services include enhanced research tools as well as keepsake products created from family tree data. Geni welcomes both casual genealogists and experts who wish to discover new relatives and stay in touch with family. Geni is privately held and based in Los Angeles, California. Its financial backers include Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. It was founded in 2006 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, who was the original Chief Operating Office of PayPal and also the founder of Yammer, Inc.

We provide information genealogy-related online meetings, classes, hangouts, seminars and webinars, where there is a visual slide share and/or website or software demo for attendees to view.

Hosts may use a variety of platforms including Adobe Connect, AnyMeeting, Captera, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, Live Meeting, Skype, Web-Ex, and Wiggio, to name a few.

There are currently over 35 with posting access to this calendar and blog, and over 200 hours of scheduled instruction for genealogists wishing to hone their research skills during the coming year. If you'd like to join the calendar to post your organization's events, just drop a note to Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com.

If you wish to add the blog to your blog reader, add this feed code, without the square brackets:[http://blog.geneawebinars.com/feeds/8104658385246233799/comments/default]

If you wish to add this calendar to your list of Google Calendars, click the "+Google" button in the lower right portion of the calendar.